Buroo vs Buron - What's the difference?
buroo | buron |
(Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.
*193? , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), ‘Forsaken’, Smeddum , Canongate 2001:
*:Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo .
*1990 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Quiet People’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 461:
*:‘Anyway, MacFee is very good at stripping lead and copper and zinc and iron from old factories and houses that are going to be demolished – folk pay him to do that, and when work is short he never goes on the burroo .
A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style
* {{quote-book, 1996, Simone A. Abram, chapter=Reactions to Tourism: A View from the Deep Green Heart of France, editor=Jeremy Boissevain, Coping with Tourists
, passage=According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'}}
As nouns the difference between buroo and buron
is that buroo is (scotland|slang) the labour bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole while buron is a traditional auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.buroo
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*broo *burrooNoun
(-)buron
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